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Average most often refers to the arithmetic mean, but more generally to measures of central tendency that use most, or all, of the data values. Examples include trimmed mean, Winsorized mean, harmonic mean and geometric mean.

I have several completely different software components that are producing scores for certain candidate solutions.
Now, setting aside the technical details of what is the problem that I want to solve ...

First of, I'm not a data scientist or anything like that so there will be a lot of hand waving (sorry about that), I just hope to get the gist across.
At my company we're doing a 360-degree feedback ...

I have a sample of 10. Each patient completes a walking task twice. Is it reasonable to use both trials in my analysis? I get scale data. I see the patients at two different time points.
To clarify. ...

I'm studying for a midterm in my basic stats course and came across a question that I'm confused with how it's solved.
A manager at a local gas bar has 13 staff members. The average hourly wage for
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I have a dataset and for each hour there is 3 readings (sometimes missing and sometimes clearly an outlier). I am trying to find the mean of the entire dataset for the parameter. It has been suggested ...

related to my job I want to code a realistic monte carlo simulation for availability, reliability and related sensitivity analysis. Scenario will be complex and there will be many parameters.
What I ...

In my dataset i have about 30k of transactional data. For analysis, I want to show the end user some important KPIs:
Average of transactions with loyalty cards
Average turnover of these transactions
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I have really basic statistical question about calculating the mean of two temporally different datasets.
Let's say that we have two spatially and temporally varying datasets from the same measurment ...

I have the following problem.
Consider that there is an election where n persons are voting. The goal of the election is to estimate the weight of a bag. Each person can vote for an integer value : ...

How to avoid the issue of an item with a single 5-star rating getting a higher average rating than one with (99 5-star ratings and one 4-star rating). How to properly rank based on average star and ...

For the process I am testing, if I run 1000 trials I get an average score of 84.2 with a standard deviation of 11.35.
So my question is, is it possible to run this less than 1000 times and still get ...

Just to confirm my findings to a group of data scientists...
I have a data set with patients visits and among others the death age of deceased patients. If I then look up all diagnoses the patients ...

I can't find definitions for either tantile or medial on Wikipedia or Wolfram Mathworld, but the following explanation is given in Bílková, D. and Mala, I. (2012), "Application of the L-moment method ...

I'm writing an algorithm to split twitter hashtags into their component words. I'm splitting the tags into all possible substrings, and then looking up each substring's frequency in a dictionary. I ...

I would like to know if my thinking on this is correct. Note: This is not a homework or work question, I am just interested in learning about comparing averages and how it applies to the problem set ...

I have 20 years of corn yields data from five neighboring fields. I transform them into year over year yield increase. I want to get the correlation between these areas. But instead of correlation out ...